So the forest has a sacred character too; men may go regularly into it, but women are not permitted the same ease of access.

Desecration is the act of depriving something of its sacred character.

It is safe to say, however, that originally all cosmization had a sacred character.

In a land where nothing seems more important than money, the flag's singular exemption from destruction-by-profit-motive may invest it with a sacred character.

He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

And the sacred character of human life denied," he told the worshipers.

Although of sacred character, their function as a temple can often not be asserted.

The sacred character of the forest, even prior to the colonial era, helped to conserve it.

Did the sacred character of some of these objects mean they should not be in museums at all?

These were at first chiefly of a sacred character.